"Damn it! What the hell was that? We clearly avoided their vital points with our attacks. Why did they choose to blow themselves up?"
Naruto, covered in dust and grime, wore a completely baffled expression.
Explosions did not care whether someone was a genin or a jonin. Their power was what it was.
Without a way to deal with them, all one could do was dodge!
If they had retreated even a little later, they would not have gotten away with mere superficial wounds.
Still, Naruto wanted to understand why those two rain ninja had chosen to self-destruct.
After all, they did not look like crazed people, did they?
If he had to say something, it was only that they had seemed a little strange after being knocked down the first time.
"Sasuke, do you have any clues?"
Unable to figure it out, Naruto could only turn to Sasuke.
At that moment, Sasuke, having suffered a minor setback, had already activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan.
However, compared to Naruto's powerful self-healing ability granted by his Uzumaki Clan physique and Nine-Tails Chakra, whose arm wound had already begun healing—
The burn on Sasuke's arm stood out glaringly.
Although such a minor wound would not affect him much, Sasuke still found it humiliating.
His expression was therefore as dark as iron.
"I hadn't activated my Sharingan earlier, so I didn't notice anything. But now I'm certain that all three of them have been controlled by genjutsu!
"That means someone is watching everything happening here from behind the scenes!"
Sasuke stared at the last rain ninja as he spoke in a low voice.
Through the observation of his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, the Chakra within that final rain ninja, who was staggering toward them, was completely chaotic!
Considering that all three rain ninja were in exactly